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>>28752446>>28752860>>28756637> ...well.> This certainly wasn't how you'd planned it going.> Certainly not how Cadance had planned it, especially after she'd refused seeing Flurry once.> But now - no, there's no way to break them apart again.> You aren't sure even Cadance would obey if you told her to."Come in, Flurry."> With tentative steps she almost tip-toes the rest of the way through the doorway; though one ear pricks towards your voice, Flurry's eyes remain firmly locked on the larger alicorn.> And her eyes on Flurry; almost forgetting your daughter's nearness, Cadance reaches out a trembling hoof.> "F-F-Flur-"> "Momma?"> That breaks the tension; Cadance leaps for her daughter, wings and forelegs alike snapping out to scoop the filly up and hold her with the force only a parent thought they'd lost their child can muster up.> Both of them are babbling - half crying, almost barely speaking, as they nuzzle with foreheads pressed together and nickering softly to each other.> Your own daughter looks slightly lost; with a small smile you beckon her to your own side, seating her on your lap and pulling an arm around her in a gentler mirror of the ponies' actions.> "F-Flurry, I'm so so-o-orry. I - I shouldn't have s-sent you away. I d-didn't ever mean it to be this long!"> Cadance's cries even leave something stirring in your own chest.> "I only m-meant to protect you; I'm so sorry..."> Flurry's cries are rather more incoherent - the even greater weeping of a heart that had not just lost her family, but accepted it - only to have this reunion creep up in ambush.> Eventually, thought, she rips her eyes from her mother and speaks up in a shaky, trilling voice:> "M-Master, we're allowed-""Yes. Both of you are."> "D-Does that mean Mommy isn't a bad pony anymore?"> Cadance recoils as if shot, disbelief and horror flickering on her face."It means... she's done well enough for this."